The site of an underground detonation of a megaton nuclear bomb in the middle of the Mojave Desert.

A land of debatable treasure.

These huge stone ovens in the desert fueled the Nevada silver boom, and may have also been a hideout for outlaws.

Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

This trail leads to a mine that was used as a sanctuary during the Great Fire of 1910.

After this former brothel closed, its interior remained almost frozen in time.

The mayor made the declaration in 2004.

A mining town, now abandoned, was built in a canyon so narrow that the railroad ran right through the hotel lobby.

Get a taste of the Wild West and a glimpse into the gold rush in Goldfield's oldest continually-running business.

Home to the deepest rift anywhere on Earth.

A brothel nestled amongst ghost towns, with an abandoned plane wreck to greet you.

The most magnificent bottle house in a town strangely full of them.

In the middle of a remote desert town is a surprisingly opulent hotel.

This once bustling boomtown hotel is now the hottest spot in Nevada for ghost hunters.

Graffiti, cars, and religion combine to create this jungle of scrap in the Nevada desert.

The tragedy of the Japanese internment camps is remembered here by a stark "Soul Consoling Tower."

Officially named the "Loneliest Road in America," this barren stretch of Nevada road offers almost nothing but sky and open fields.

An errant donkey ushered in a new era of mining in Nevada.

This massive crater in the middle of nowhere was used to train astronauts for moon landings.

Oh, just a motel on the edge of the desert decorated with thousands of clowns conveniently located next to an abandoned graveyard.

This one-room cabin where the young colonel slept during the French and Indian War.

Steepest flood safety railway in the entire world.

The world's largest occupied bat houses hold hundreds of thousands of flying mammals.